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Ten American Girls from History

Chapter 18: ACKNOWLEDGMENT
By Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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A collection of ten concise biographical sketches profiles women from American history — a native woman associated with early colonial contact, Revolutionary-era patriots, battlefield and lifesaving heroines, a Civil War spy, a pioneering nurse, a novelist, an actress, and an impassioned orator. Each chapter recounts notable deeds, personal qualities, and formative episodes, highlighting loyalty, courage, public service, and literary or theatrical achievement. Anecdotal narrative and character detail aim to make history engaging and accessible for young readers while presenting role models of civic virtue. A foreword and references encourage readers to consult longer biographies for fuller context.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The writer of this book gratefully acknowledges her indebtedness for valuable material gleaned from many sources. Especially does she tender appreciative thanks to the authors of the following works:

S. G. Drake; Book of the Indians of North America.

John Esten Cooke; My Lady Pocahontas.

Woodrow Wilson; History of the American People.

Mrs. Eliz. (Eggleston) Seelye; Pocahontas.

Smith, Elmer Boyd; Story of Pocahontas & Capt. Smith.

Mabie, H. W.; Heroines Every Child Should Know.

Holland, R. S.; Historic Girlhoods.

Woodbury, E. C. D. Q.; Dorothy Quincy, Wife of John Hancock.

Sears, Lorenzo; John Hancock, the Picturesque Patriot.

National Cyclopædia of American Biography.

Raum; History of New Jersey.

Stockton, Frank; Stories of New Jersey.

McGeorge, J. C.; "A N. J. Heroine of the Revolution" (Am. Monthly Magazine).

Beymer, W. G.; On Hazardous Service.

James, George Wharton; Heroines of California.

Houten, E. L.; The Donner Party.

Murphy, Virginia Reed; "Across the Plains in the Donner Party." (Cent. Mag., 1891.)

Ellet, E. E.; Pioneer Women of the West.

Ellet, E. E.; Women of the American Revolution.

Parton, James; Eminent Women of the Age.

Barton, Clara; Story of the Red Cross.

Epler, P. H.; Life of Clara Barton.

Bonselle & De Forest; Little Women Letters from the Home of Alcott.

Cheney; Life and Letters of Louisa Alcott.

Morris, Clara; Life on the Stage.

Outlook, Outing, Century, Munsey, Hist. Mag., Etc.

Christian; History of Richmond.

Anonymous; Famous Prison Escapes.

Anonymous; Richmond Prisons.

McMasters; Primary History of United States.

Memorial to Clara Barton.




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Transcriber's Notes:

Printer errors (omitted punctuation, omitted or transposed letters, etc.) have been corrected without note.

Hyphenation has been made consistent without note; it has been left unchanged where there is variation in quotations.

Page 128 had an obscured section of text, which reads "... then the children must [blank] back after school hours." In the context, and with the space and few visible marks, the missing text would seem to be "be rowed" so those words have been used.

Page 258 contains a quotation which includes the term "scrape-goat" which would appear to be a deliberate spelling on the part of the writer rather than a printing error. It has therefore been retained.